NGC 4940
NGC 4940
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4940 as it looked roughly 240 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 4709Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 4622AElliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 4679Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 4953Lenticular41 million ly
apartNGC 5090BBarred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 4616Elliptical42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4622AElliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 4679Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 4953Lenticular41 million ly
apartNGC 5090BBarred spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 4616Elliptical42 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).